04 Feb 2021
The University of Mannheim has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.
The University Library Mannheim manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund.
Please note that this fund is not supported by the DFG’s Open-Access Publishing Programme (contrary to most German universities participating in OpenAPC), but instead by Mannheim University Library, the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).
Contact Person is Philipp Zumstein.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 11 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 13 524€ and the average fee is 1 229€.
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mannheim now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

04 Feb 2021
We welcome the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as new contributing institution!
Kiel University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dr. Eike Hentschel .
Cost data
The initial data set contributed by Kiel University Library covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 88 705€ and the average fee is 1 503€.
The following table shows the payments Kiel University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
25 |
38824 |
1553 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
13774 |
1722 |
Frontiers Media SA |
7 |
12077 |
1725 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
4 |
6693 |
1673 |
Copernicus GmbH |
3 |
4845 |
1615 |
AME Publishing Company |
2 |
2836 |
1418 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
3260 |
1630 |
sub\urban e.V. |
2 |
800 |
400 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1332 |
1332 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
1 |
1906 |
1906 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
850 |
850 |
Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin |
1 |
325 |
325 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
949 |
949 |
Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones |
1 |
232 |
232 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

03 Feb 2021
The University of Salzburg has reported new APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 to 2020 period.
The University Library of Salzburg manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund.
Contact Person is Linda Ohrtmann.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 42 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 80 750€ and the average fee is 1 923€.
The following table shows the payments the University of Salzburg has made to publishers from 2018 to 2020 (including taxes and discounts).
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
19910 |
2489 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
21722 |
2715 |
MDPI AG |
6 |
7350 |
1225 |
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
4 |
2500 |
625 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
3 |
7249 |
2416 |
BMJ |
2 |
4614 |
2307 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
3314 |
1657 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
3077 |
1538 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
3110 |
1555 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
4135 |
4135 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1080 |
1080 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1422 |
1422 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
907 |
907 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
360 |
360 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Salzburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
